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Campus & Community

Filmmaker Mark Achbar and ‘Blue Gold: World Water Wars’ coming to Syracuse

Saturday, April 3, 2010, By News Staff

Fillmmaker Mark Achbar will visit SU later this month and will participate in an April 22 dinner discussion and screening of his film “Blue Gold: World Water Wars.”

Health & Society

Brandon Steiner, founder and chairman of Steiner Sports Marketing, to speak at SU April 6

Friday, April 2, 2010, By Michele Barrett

Syracuse University Alumnus Brandon Steiner ‘81, the founder and chairman of Steiner Sports Marketing, will speak at SU on April 6. The free event will begin at 7 p.m. in Crouse Hinds Hall, Room 010, and will include a book signing of Steiner’s “The Business Playbook–Leadership Lessons from the World of Sports” (Entrepreneur Press, 2003).

Media, Law & Policy

Nobel Peace Prize nominee Volkan to speak at ‘Translating Peace’ event Thursday at Maxwell School

Wednesday, March 31, 2010, By News Staff

Vamik Djemal Volkan, emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia and a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will be the keynote speaker for “Translating Peace: Multicultural Responses to Conflict and Disaster,” a panel to be held Thursday, April 1 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Public Events Room, 220 Eggers Hall.

Campus & Community

Pollster John Zogby to speak at Library Associates Luncheon April 30

Wednesday, March 31, 2010, By News Staff

Syracuse University Library Associates will present noted political pollster John Zogby at its annual Spring Luncheon, April 30 at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center.

Health & Society

Taishoff Center Lecture Series inaugural speaker Prince to discuss her experiences with autism spectrum

Tuesday, March 30, 2010, By News Staff

The Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education and the School of Education will welcome Dawn Prince to give the inaugural lecture of the Taishoff Center Lecture Series on April 20.

Fraud and forensic accounting expert Zimiles to speak at SU College of Law Commencement

Tuesday, March 30, 2010, By Jaclyn D. Grosso

Ellen Zimiles ‘83 will deliver the 2010 Commencement address to graduates of Syracuse University College of Law on Sunday, May 23, in the Carrier Dome.

Health & Society

Peter Balakian, expert on Armenian genocide, leads Genocide Awareness Week schedule

Monday, March 29, 2010, By Jennifer Russo

He will present “The Armenian Genocide and Modernity,” on Monday, April 12, at 4 p.m. in the Winnick Hillel Center.

Health & Society

‘Red Orchestra’ author to speak about Berlin’s underground Hitler resistance movement on April 5

Monday, March 29, 2010, By Jennifer Russo

Anne Nelson, author of “Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends who Resisted Hitler,” will speak on April 5 at 4 p.m. at Watson Theater,

Arts & Culture

Harvard humanist chaplain to speak at SU March 29

Friday, March 26, 2010, By Rob Enslin

Greg Epstein, Harvard University’s humanist chaplain and author of The New York Times best-seller, “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe” (HarperCollins, 2009), is speaking at Syracuse University on Monday, March 29.

Health & Society

Harvard medical sociologist Christakis to speak on health and social networks for Center for Health and Behavior annual lecture April 12

Friday, March 26, 2010, By News Staff

Nicholas A. Christakis, an internist and social scientist who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care and longevity, will deliver the Center for Health and Behavior’s eighth annual lecture, “Social Networks and Health,” on Monday, April 12 at 4 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse 3